The award-winning Mediterranean Restaurant serves the best of Italian, French, Greek and Spanish cuisine.
The Mediterranean Restaurant, just a couple of blocks off the Pearl Street Mall, has been one of Boulder’s most popular eating, drinking and meeting establishments for more than fifteen years. The “Med,” as everyone calls it, is the place to go in Boulder for cuisine that combines the best of Italy, France, Greece and Spain.
It’s very much a happening place. Named after the sea that formed the center of the Roman Empire, Mediterranean literally means the “middle of the world,” and the Med continues to hold its own in the middle of Boulder’s competitive dining scene.
Although it didn’t start the local craze for pizza baked in wood-burning ovens, the Med puts out pie after crunchy pie, year after year. From the $7.25 Margherita to the Fantasia Di Salumi, for $9.25, it’s possible to eat here without spending a huge amount of money. A lot of people do, and they’ll buy a small pizza or a couple of appetizers and a glass of wine as a sort of way of paying rent for a few hours of hanging out with friends or meeting new ones.
There are a lot of those appetizers, called “tapas”: 35 altogether. The calientes, or hot plates, include the $3 Falafel Bil Tahini and the $6.50 Catalan shrimp cooked in garlic. The $6 octopus salad, with minced peppers, fresh tomato, cilantro and garlic is something you probably wouldn’t have at home. It can be tempting to belly up to the bar, as they do in Spain, and keep on ordering one delicious tapa after another until your belly is more than full. A lot of people do that, too, if they don’t mind the paying the tab that all those little plates add up to.
The Med also serves salads, seafood, pastas, paella, and it offers a large number of entrees, from the $9.95 Spanakopita to the espresso-crusted filet mignon for $28.95. What the Med serves the most consistently, though, is a lot of fun. If you don’t mind the noise bouncing off its attractive, white-walled rooms, you’ll probably keep coming back for more — along with all that delicious food.
- by David Zindell, Denver Reporter for HelloMetro
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